Updated October 2013
NORMA ELlA CANTÚ
Professor Emerita, University of Texas, San Antonio
Professor of Latina/o Studies and English, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Web page : http://colfa.utsa.edu/English/cantu.html
Blogs at www.wordpress.normacantu.com
Address :
Haag Hall 204 A
5120 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64131
E-mail: [email protected]
Office : 816-235-4125
Cell : 210-363-4736
Education/Certification
1984 Secondary English and Government Certification by the State of Texas
1982 Ph.D. University of Nebraska—Lincoln
Co-Chairs: Profs. Paul Olson and Ralph Grajeda
Dissertation: The Offering and the Offerers: A Generic Illocation of a Laredo
Pastorela in the Tradition of the Shepherds’ Plays
1976 M.S. Texas A&I University--Kingsville, with honors
Major: English Minor: Political Science
1973 B.S. Texas A&I University--Laredo, cum laude
Major: Education: English/Political Science
1970 A.A. Laredo Junior College
Areas of Teaching Interest
Latino/a Studies, Chicano/a Literature, Border Studies, Folklore, Women Studies, Creative
Writing
Areas of Research Interest
Border Studies, Chicano/a Literature, Latino/a Studies Cultural Studies, Folklore, Feminist
Studies
Teaching Experience
2013-Present
2012-Present
2000-2012
1993-2000
1994-1995
1987-1993
1980-1987
1976-1979
1975-1976
University of Missouri, Kansas City—Full Professor of Latina/o Studies
University of Texas, San Antonio—Professor Emerita
University of Texas, San Antonio—Full Professor of Latina/o Literature
Texas A&M International University—Full Professor
Georgetown University--School for Continuing Education—Visiting
Professor, Literature
Laredo State University/Texas A&M International University—Associate
Professor
Laredo State University—Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska, Lincoln—Instructor
University of Nebraska, Lincoln—Teaching Assistant
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1973-1975
Texas A&I University, Kingsville—Teaching Assistant
Dissertations completed under my supervision:
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Laura López, “Confronting Predators and Shadow Beasts: Representations of WorkingPoor Chicanas in Contemporary Young Adult Literature,” 2012
Margaret Cantú-Sánchez, “Healing the Split": Tejiendo Mestizajes of Epistemologies in
Latina Education and Literature,” 2012
Candace de León Zepeda, “Decolonizing the Classroom: Mapping the Impact of
Educational Inequalities on Mexican-Americans through a Third Space Chicana Feminist
Analysis of Literature and Film,” 2012
Larissa Mercado-López, “I feel a revolution occur in my womb”: Mapping Cognitive and
SomaticTransformation through Readings of Mestiza Maternal Facultad,” 2011
Lenora Perry-Samaniego, “Queer Histories and Interstitial Territories: Transgressive
Women from Early Modern Iberia to Postmodern Aztlán,” 2009
Cordelia Barrera, “Border Places, Frontier Spaces: Deconstructing Ideologies of the
Southwest,” 2009
Linda Winterbottom, “Taking It with Them: Elsewhere Consciousness in the Fiction of
Edwidge Danticat, Paule Marshall and Jamaica Kincaid,” 2008
June Pedraza, “Third Space Mestizaje as a Critical Approach to Literature,” 2008
Administrative Experience:
Fall 2013
Acting Director, Latino/a Studies, UMKC
Fall 2002--Spring 2004; Fall 2007-Spring 2010
Graduate Advisor of Record, Ph.D. Program in English, UTSA
Duties: Supervise and advise doctoral students, Chair the doctoral program’s
Graduate Advisory Committee, advise the department chair on course
scheduling and work with the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College
of Liberal and Fine Arts and with the Office of Graduate Studies and the
Graduate Dean as necessary.
1998-1999
Acting Director, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Duties: Coordinated activities and oversaw the functions of the Center, including
budgets, research projects, special events, faculty research support, graduate
and undergraduate services, and other administrative matters.
1993-1995
Senior Arts Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts, Folk and
Traditional Arts Program
Duties: Reviewed and advised on grant applications for the program, advised
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applicants of review guidelines and in the preparation of proposals, and followed
through with the application from submission to the panel review process.
Served as liaison for NEA with the Task force on Folk Arts in Education and with
the research projects in the field project. Supervised high school intern
with the Upward Bound Program at Georgetown University.
1991-1992
Interim Dean, School of Education and Arts & Sciences
Duties: Conducted strategic planning for the school; supervised budget and
curricular matters, recruited, hired and supervised faculty; established the
transition from one organizational structure to another; performed general
administrative functions at the level of Dean.
1987-1991
Chair of the Division of Arts & Sciences
Duties: Supervised and managed budget and curricula for seven Arts and
Sciences disciplines; recruited, hired and supervised faculty--the faculty
increased from 7 to 21 during my tenure.
Academic Honors/Grants/Awards
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HOPE Cultural Arts Award
Letras de Aztlán, NACCS Tejas Foco
2012
Beca Nebrija de Creación Literaria, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá de
Henares, June
Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, April
2011
Inducted as a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, October
Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture, UT-Austin, May
2010
Exceptional Texas Woman, by the Veteran Feminists of America, Texas, March
UTSA Globalization Award, April
Elvira Cordero de Cisneros Macondo Foundation Award, June
2008
National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year
2008
Cátedra Laboris from the Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León
2007
Texas A&M International University, distinguished alumni award "Portraits of
Alumni Achievement," Laredo, Texas, January
"Premio Letras de Aztlán," National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies,
Tejas Foco, March
2004
Instituto Israelí-Latino Americano: invited participant for a week-long visit to
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Israel for the Encuentro de Escritoras de Latino América y Estados Unidos
2003
Américo Paredes Prize, American Folklore Society
Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
of the Modern Languages Association
The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book, Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy
and Politics (I am a contributor)
NSF Grant for $48,800 for ¡Adelante! Focus on Latinas in Math, Science and
Engineering
Susan Koppelman Award for Chicana Traditions: Change and Continuity given by
the joint Women’s Caucus of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association
2002
Elli Köngäs Maranda Prize from the Women’s Section of the American Folklore
Society, Chicana Traditions: Change and Continuity (I am co-editor and
contributor)
Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine, Chicana Traditions: Change
and Continuity
The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book, Telling to Live: Latina feminist
testimonios (I am co-editor and contributor)
American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, Race in the
College Classroom (I am a contributor)
2001
Outstanding Alumni Award, Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas
1999
Master’s Week Invited Alumni, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1998-99
Research Fellowship, University of California, Sta. Barbara
1998
“Cuentos y más” Project, Research Grant, Recovering the U.S. Literary Heritage,
University of Houston, to research traditional literature in Laredo, TX
Award of Merit, The Association of Women in Communications, San Antonio
Professional Chapter, for outstanding achievement in the field of
communications for work in the television documentary Los Matachines de la
Santa Cruz
1997
Outstanding Alumni Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska
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1996
Voted to be Commencement Speaker at Graduation by graduating class of
TAMIU
Research Grant from Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center/Rockefeller Gateways
Program to research Quinceañera traditions in Laredo
Premio Aztlán, for Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
Webb County Heritage Award for Publication: Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood
en la Frontera
1995
Lulac #12, Martin High School Tiger Legend
Inducted into the Laredo Women's Hall of Fame
1987-88
Texas Folklife Resources/Research grants-Fieldwork/apprenticeship with Doña María Solis, colcha quilter
Fieldwork with Matachines religious folk dance group
1985
Fulbright-Hays (U.S.--Spanish Joint Committee) Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship to Spain
1982
Ford Foundation Chicano Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
1979-80
Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to Spain
1977-79
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1977-79
University of Nebraska—Lincoln: Instructor
1975-76
University of Nebraska--Lincoln: Teaching Assistantship
1973-75
Texas A&I University-Kingsville Teaching Assistantship
1974
Texas A & I University-Kingsville, Research Assistantship for a linguistic study
of South Texas high school sophomores
1965-66
Laredo Junior College--Laredo, Texas, Rotary International Scholarship
Publications: Books, Novels, Poetry, Short Fiction, Personal Essay
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Forthcoming:
Cabañuelas: A love story. Novel, under review (no date)
Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art. Co-edited with Inés
Hernández Ávila at UC Davis, advanced contract with University of Texas Press
In Progress:
Single author:
Walking the Path: A Chicana on the Camino de Santiago
Papeles de mujer (novel written in Spanish)
Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Life, Love and Work (finished poetry mss being
revised)
Champú: or Hair Matters (novel about 80% finished)
Soldiers of the Cross: Los matachines de la Santa Cruz. Texas A&M University
Press, advanced contract from Texas A&M University Press (70% done)
Co-editor:
La Pluma Pintada: Critical and Creative work on the Life of José Antonio
Burciaga. Co-edited with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs at Seattle University (on
hold)
The Plays of Silviana Wood co-edited with Rita Urquíjo Ruiz, Trinity University
(80% done)
MeXicana Fashion, co-edited with Aída Hurtado (editing submissions)
Somos Tejanas: Tejana Cultural Production, co-edited with Sonia Saldívar Hull
and Lori Beth Rodríguez (editing submissions)
Perspectives on Latina and Latino Young Adult Literature, co-edited with Gabriela
Baeza Ventura and Laura López (collecting contributions)
BOOKS
2014
Editor: Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson’s Art of Protest and Promise, in Press with Texas
A&M University Press
2011
Editor: Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies of Chicanas with Careers in
Mathematics, Science and Engineering. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Press
Editor: El Mundo Zurdo: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the
Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2007 & 2009, Co-Editor. (Aunt Lute Books)
2010
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2009
2006
2002
2001
1997
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Inside the Latin@ Experience: A Latino Studies Reader, co-edited with Maria
Franquiz (Palgrave/McMillan)
Editor: Moctezuma’s Table: Rolando Briseño’s Chicano Tablescapes. Editor.
(Texas A&M University Press).
Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. co-edited with Olga NájeraRamírez and Brenda Romero. University of Illinois Press.
Prietas y Güeras: Proceedings of the First Conference on the Life and Work of
Gloria Anzaldúa. Co-editor. San Antonio, TX: Adelante Project.
I embroider borders…. Poetry book, limited edition. Southwest School of Arts and
Crafts.
Flor y ciencia: Chicanas in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Editor. The
Adelante Project, published by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, co-edited with Olga Nájera Ramírez.
University of Illinois Press. (Second Printing)
Canícula: Imagenes de una niñez fronteriza. Houghton Mifflin, paperback
edition.
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Co-editor with the Latina Feminist
Group. Duke University Press.
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, paperback edition.
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press (multiple printings)
Journal Articles/ Chapters in Books
Forthcoming:
“El vaivén de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects,” in Passing through Home:
Space as Process in U.S. Narratives of Return. Antonia Oliver Rotger, Ed. (Routledge, 2014)
Publications:
2014
Translation: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, UNAM
2013
“Hungers and Desires: Borderlands Appetites,” in Rethinking Chicana/o
Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites. Eds. Nieves Pascual & Meredith
E. Abarca, pp. 155-170.
“Healing the Wound; Immigration, Activism, and Policies.” In Tikkun: Politics,
Spirituality, Culture. Summer 2013, pp 31,65-66.
“Forward,” Lo que trae la marea / What the Tide Brings In. Mouthfeel Press,
August
“Quinceañeras and Cincuentañeras,” “Celebrations,” “Religious Celebrations,”
entries for the Encyclopedia of Latino Culture (ABC-CLIO), Ed. Chuck Tatum.
2012
“Introduction,” Carmen Tafoya’s Curandera. Wings Press.
Performing Indigeneity in a South Texas Community: Los Matachines de la Santa
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Cruz,” in Performing the US Latina-O Borderlands. Eds. Arturo Aldama, Chela
Sandoval, Peter García.
“Testimonio, Autobiography, and Memoir” Routledge Companion to Latin@
Literature Eds. Frances Aparicio & Suzanne Bost. Routledge.
2011
“Dos Mundos: Two Celebrations in Laredo, Texas--Los Matachines de la Santa
Cruz and The George Washington’s Birthday.” Global Mexican Cultural
Productions. Eds. Rita Urquijo Ruiz, Rosana Blanco Castro. Palgrave/MacMillan
2010
“Interview” English Studies. Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
2009
“The Semiotics of Land: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz,” in Dancing across
Borders: Danzas y bailes mejicanos. U of Ill Press.
“1836 Texas Border Writing” in A New Literary History of America. Eds. Greil
Marcus and Werner Sollors. Boston: Harvard University Press.
“Introduction,” in Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies from Chicanas with
Careers in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. UCLA Chicano Studies
Research Center.
“Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life” in
Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape and Academic Identity. eds. Jennifer
Sinor and Rona Kaufman. Utah State University, 2007.
"Whose Story Is It Anyway? NACCS Proceedings
“Adios in Madrid,” short story in Paralelo Sur, Barcelona, Spain
“Muy Macho! The Construction of Latino Masculinity” in Manly Traditions, ed.
Simon Bronner.
“Whose Story Is It Anyway? Autobiography on the Border” in Beginning a New
Millennium of Chicana and Chicano Scholarship: Selected Proceedings of the
2001 NACCS Conference. Jamie H. García, ed. San Jose, CA: National Association
for Chicana and Chicano Studies.
“Montserrat Fontes,” in Reading Latina Writers: a Remapping of American
Literature, Temple University Press
“Pastoras and Malinches: Women in Traditional Folk Drama.” Vol. 5 of the
Recovering the U.S Literary Heritage Project, University of Houston, Arte Público
Press
“Breaking Boundaries, Finding Forms: Writing Canícula,” in Chicana Feminisms: A
Reader. Duke University Press
“Quinceañera” in Punto de Vista, a column on a Latino arts and culture web site.
“Centering the Margins: A Chicana in the English Classroom.” In Race in the
Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. Eds. Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy.
Rutgers University Press.
“Western Autobiography and Memoir: A Panel of Writers” In Western American
Literature Special Issue: Western Autobiography and Memoir. Summer. Pp. 150169.
“Power of Words,” Sombrilla Essay (Winter)
2008
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2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
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“La Quinceañera: towards an ethnographic analysis of a life-cycle ritual.”
Southern Folklore: 56. 1.
“La Virgen de Guadalupe: Symbol of Faith and Devotion,” Familia, Fé y
Fiestas/Family, Faith and Fiestas: Mexican American Celebrations of the Holiday
Season, ArteAmericas and Fresno Arts Council.
“Desde el otro lado: Margarita Canseco del Valle, escritora fronteriza,” in Las
Formas de Nuestras Voces: Chicana and Mexicana Writers in Mexico, Claire
Joysmith, ed. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
“Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera: Notes Toward a Socio Literary
Analysis,” in Feasts and Celebrations in U.S. Ethnic Communities. Ramón
Gutierrez, ed. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
“The wound that will not heal,” Program Book for the Festival of American
Folklife. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
“Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz: un acto de resistencia cultural,” Mito y
Leyenda Tijuana, BC: Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
“Costume as Cultural Resistance and Affirmation: The Case of a South Texas
Community,” Texas Folklore Society, Hecho en Texas. Denton: University of
North Texas Press.
“Mexican American Quilting Traditions in Laredo, San Ygnacio and Zapata,” coauthored with Ofelia Zapata, Hecho en Texas. Denton: University of North Texas
Press.
“The Barrios of Laredo,” and “Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz,” Sí Laredo,
Laredo, TX.
“La Pastorela,” Sí Laredo, Laredo, TX, Fall/Winter.
Chicana Voices: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender, on Editorial Board,
introduction to literature section and plenary paper.
“Tejanos along the Border,” The Texas Humanist.
Translation of two poems by Alfonsina Storni: “Eye" and “Fisherman,” Prairie
Schooner.
“My ‘Excuse-me’ Tongue,” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Minneapolis, in ERIC.
Para Niños From Two Cultures, Texas A&I University at Laredo.
Professional Reports
2008
2004
2003
2002
1999
Book Reviews
“Dressing San Antonio,” for the Smithsonian Museum of American History
Latinos/as in the South, Atlanta: Southern Arts Federation
Latino Folklife in Idaho—2000-01: A Survey of Idaho Latino Traditonal Arts.
Idaho Commission on the Arts (prepared in 2000-01 but published in 2003)
http://www.arts.idaho.gov/folk/survey.aspx#top
Report on Latino Culture and Traditional Arts in Tennessee, prepared for the
Tennessee Arts Commission, Folk Arts Program.
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There Was a Woman, in Journal of Folklore Research
Homegirls in the Public Sphere in National Women’s Studies Journal
Fiesta, fé, y cultura, in American Folklore Society Journal.
Carry Me Like Water in The Washington Post, Book World.
My History Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography, in
Western Historical Quarterly.
No Short Journeys: The Interplay of Culture in the History and Literature of the
Borderlands, in Western Historical Quarterly.
Footlights Across the Border: A History of Spanish Language Professional Theater
on the Texas Stage, in Journal of Popular Culture.
Mixed Blessings, in Texas Humanist, Spring.
Woman of Her Word, in La Red/The Net.
Cuentos: Stories by Latinas, in La Red/The Net.
Chicano Voices, English in Texas.
Selena, in Prairie Schooner.
César Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa, in Prairie Schooner.
CREATIVE WORK (POETRY, SHORT FICTION, ESSAY)
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
“Los Tecolotes” in Arriba Baseball! A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction.
Robert Paul Moreira, Ed. VAO Publishing.
“Primas,” in Shadowbox Magazine: A Collection of Creative Non-Fiction, Issue 3,
an online publication featuring Creative Non-Fiction.
http://www.shadowboxmagazine.org/issue3/Bottle11.swf
“Aprendiendo a Vivr/Aprendiendo a Morir” (Learning to Live/Learning to Die”
Creative Non-fiction essay, in Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work
Transformed our Own. Eds. AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López.
“La Llorona Considers the State of Tortillas” in Poetic Voices without Borders 2,
Robert Girón editor. Takoma Park, MD: Gival Press. (Reprint)
“The Wall” in Vandal Walls 1.1. Guest Editor, Angie Cruz. Vol 1. No. 1. Pgs. 30-31.
“Cloud Seven” and “Radio” from Champu or Hair Matters. In Ventana Abierta.
Vol 7 no. 26. Spring 2009. Pgs 67-69.
“La Llorona Considers the State of Tortillas,” poem in Feminist Studies: The
Chicana Studies Issue.vol. 34, nos. 1/2 Spring/Summer
"Adios en Madrid" in Antología del Cuento Chicano, Gran Vía Edizioni, Milan,
Italy
http://www.gran-via.it/scheda.php?id=26
"Mexican Citizen," in Art at our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers + Artist. San
Antonio: Trinity University Press
“Being Tejana: Thoughts on Life, Land, and Cutlure” Puentes. Ed. Jesús Rosales.
Corpus Christi
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"Poemas del desierto: 'La Luna' 'Sangre en el desierto,' and 'Two Countries'" in
Sonarida: Revista de Encuentro entre Sonora y Arizona. Secretaría de Educación y
Cultura.
"Living to Tell, Telling to Live: three Literary Exercises." In Naming the World.:
And other Exercises for the Creative Writer. Bret Anthony Johnston, Ed.
Two poems: "A Weak Verb" "Strong Verbs" in Main Channel Voices,
vol.3, no.2 Spring
"Prólogo" Mancha, Revista Literaria, San Juan Puerto Rico, Summer
"Sangre en el desierto," "Two Countries," and "La luna" in Puentes: Revista
méxico-chicana de literaria, cultura y arte. Texas A&M Corpus Christi, No. 5,
Otoño.
"Halloween" and "Santa Maria" in Hecho en Tejas, An Anthology of Texas
Mexican Literature. UT- Press
“Adios in Madrid,” short story in Paralelo Sur Revista de Arte y Literatura,
Barcelona, Spain
Oboler, Suzanne and Deena González, eds. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino and
Latina Studies. Boston: Oxford University Press. Entries: “Santa Fe Style,” “Paper
Arts,” “Parades and Processions,” and numerous other entries. I served as one of
7 Senior Editors.
“Luto” in Cuentos Latinos, Fall
“Dreaming of Hummingbirds and Rattlesnakes: Impressions of a Tejana in
Idaho,” in Latinos in Idaho. Boise: Humanities Council.
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Co-editor with the Latina Feminist
Group. Individual pieces include: “Getting there cuando no hay camino,” “A
Working Class Bruja’s Fears,” and two poems: “Migraine” and “Reading the
Body.” Duke University Press.
Santuarios: Program Essay. The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Rockefeller
Gateways Program, Performance.
“Realidad Fronteriza” short essay in Cariátides.
“Police Blotter,” short stories in Colorado Review.
Canícula: Imágenes de una niñez fronteriza. Trans., Houghton Mifflin Co.
“Diamond,” A Quien Corresponda, Revista Literaria, Cd. Victoria, Tamps.
“Tino” and “Perpetuo Socorro,” in Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana
Experiences of the War, University of California Press.
“Capirotada” in Stirring Prose, Texas A&M University Press.
“Adios en Madrid,” Proyecto Scheherazade, electronic journal.
“El luto,” in Ventana Abierta.
“Decolonizing the Mind” and “Trojan Horse” in Floricanto Sí: U.S. Latina Poetry.
New York: Penguin.
“Bailando y Cantando,” short story, “Las diosas,” “Decolonizing the Mind,” and
“Fiestas de diciembre,” poems in Blue Mesa Review, number 9, University of
New Mexico.
“Letters Home/Letters from Home,” sporadic column of poetry and prose in the
monthly LareDOS.
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“Tino” and “Papi,” in In Short. Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. New
York: Norton.
Excerpts from Canícula and “Action, Thought, Spirit” (poem) in Prairie Schooner.
“Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera,” in The Texas Humanist..
“Se me enchina el cuerpo al oir tu cuento” short story New Chicano/a Literature,
University of Arizona Press.
“Unemployed” poem, Huehuetitlan.
“Untitled” poem, Huehuetitlan.
Papers/Workshops/Presentations at Professional Meetings (Presenter, Chair, Moderator)
2013
“ “ MALCS, The Ohio State University, July
Finding Gloria: The GEA Archives at the Benson CMAS Austin, TX
“Si Se Puede: Two Sisters’ Testimonio of their Journey in Education” ACCS, San
Antonio, TX, March
Routledge Companion to Latina/o Literature Roundtable participant, NYC
Haciendo Caminos, March
“Antonia: a Chicana Story” roundtable participant. NACCS Tejas, University of
Texas Pan American, February
“Life Writing and Invention in Latina Memoir and Fiction” speaker. MLA Boston,
MA, January
2012
“Cultura Transfronteriza: Three Traditional Arts — Matachines,
Quinceañeras and el Arbol de la VidaSustainability” Bridging Cultures: Assessing
the Cultural Heritage of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Borderland, UTSA, November
"Transfrontera Experiences: The Art and Politics of Borderlands Literature and
Culture" Ohio State University, November
“Chicano/a and Latino/a Performance Art: A Cultural Resource in Times of Crisis”
panel participant. AFS, New Orleans, LA, October
Congreso de Literatura, Toledo, Spain, May
“Significant Moments in NACCS” roundtable participant. Also, moderator for
panel on NACCS Chicago, Ill, March
“Literatura Transfronteriza: MeXicana Novel Encounters” Modern Languages
Association, January
2011
“Trans/Formations: Gloria Anzaldúa and Nepantleras for the 21 st Century.”
National Women’s Studies Association, November
“The Ceramic Art of Veronica Castillo: Continuity and change,” American Folklore
Society, October 14
“Transforming Traditions: Latinas Respond to Change,” Moderator, American
Folklore Society, October
“La Quinceañera: Continuity and Change” Indiana University, La Casa Invited
talk, October 13
“Chicana Third Space Feminism: Border Traditions,” Indiana University Folklore
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Class, October 12
“Life History“ Adelante! San Antonio, TX October 17
“Pedagogy a la Anzaldua” MALCS National Meeting, Cal State Long Beach August
3-9.
CantoMundo, Workshop for Poets, Austin, July
“Primas: A Transnational Family Odyssey” CMAS, Américo Paredes Talk, May
“El Camino de Santiago: Tourism or Sacred Pilgrimage?” Universidad de
Monterrey, March
“Performing Identity: Vaqueros/as, Rancheros/as and Cowboys/girls,” State
History Museum, March 1
“Doing Work that Matters: The Impact of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La
Frontera: The New Mestiza Modern Languages Association, January
2010
2009
“Fiestas de diciembre,” Elderhostal Talk in San Antonio (UT Austin), November
“Writer as Witness,” Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León, Monterrey, NL, August
Writing Workshop coordinator, Macondo Workshop for Writers, July 25-30
“Borderlnands Culture and Traditions, University of La Laguan, Tenerife, Spain,
“Transnational Cutlural Expressions: Matachines and Quinceaneras.” Universidad
de Gran Canarias, Spain
“Sitio y Lengua” Keynote Talk at the Congreso de Literatura Chicana, Leon, Spain,
May 22
Texas A&M University, “Border Literature” May 3
Moderator, AWP, Writer as Witness Panel Denver April 7
NACCS. Seattle, WA, April 8-9
CantoMundo, Workshop for Latin@ poets, July 9-11
Moderator, AWP, Writer as Witness Panel Denver April 7
Mexican American Cultural Center, La Quinceañera for the “Quinceañeras: A
Celebration of Community, Family , Faith and Symbolism” April 17
Palabras en el andén, Casa de la Cultura, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., April 29
NACCS Tejas Foco, Austin Texas, February
Mini Symposium: Dancing Across Borders, UTSA (organizer) February
“Doing Work that Matters: The Impact of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/la
Frontera: The New Mestiza.” Modern Languages Association. Philadelphia,
December 27
“Anzaldúa after 9/11: Doing Work that Matters in an International Perspective”
National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta Georgia, November 13-15
“Recreating What Never WAS: The George Washington’s Birthday Celebration in
Laredo, Texas” co-presented with Cordelia Barrera, American Studies
Association, Washington, DC November 5
“Getting there cuando no hay camino (Getting there when there is no path):
Chicanas in STEM” CEOSE, Mini Symposium on Women of Color in STEM,
Alexandria, VA. October 27, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Reading from Champú or Hair Matters. , Society for the Study
of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, October
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Panel on Anzaldúan Thought, moderator, Society for the Study of American
Women Writers, Philadelphia, October
“Art and Anzaldúa” co-presented with Marta Sánchez. Society for the Study of
American Women Writers, Philadelphia, October
“A Dance Heritage: Writing the US Chicano Dance into the American Artistic
Landscape” Siglo XXI, Modern Movimientos, Danza UT Austin, October 16
Monterrey Poetry Reading, La Casa de la Cultura Oct 8
“Estudios fronterizos de literatura y cultura,” Monterrey Jornada sobre Estudios
Fronterizos, Tecnológico de Monterrey Oct 7
“Chicana Studies in South Texas,” South Texas College, Oct 5
“Borderlands Literature and Culture,” Collin County Community College,
September 15
“From Dissertation to Book,” MALCS Las Cruces, NM July 23-26
“Being Tejanas: Cultural and Linguistic Identities,” moderator, MALCS Las Cruces,
NM July 23-26
“Borderlands Culture and Tradition,” University of Seattle May 19-21
“Testimonios on Tejanidad” NACCS, Rutger’s Newark, NJ, April 8-11
“The eyes of Texas: What it means to write here, a conversation.” Celebrating
Texas Writers: A gathering of Texas writers, A&M University, College Station,
Mar 2-3
“Being Tejana” Tejas foco, San Antonio, Feb 27
"Literatura de Frontera" Jornadas de Literatura Chicana, Barcelona, May
"Literatura y cultura de la frontera" Classroom talk at the Universitat. Barcelona
May
"Literatura de Testimonio," VI congreso de Literatura Chicana, U of Alicante,
Spain, May
"Women Life Stories/Cuentos de Mujeres: Narratives of Tradition," VI Congreso
de Literatura Chicana, U of Alicante, Spain, May
"Just Words: Palabras de Justicia, Fiction: A Reading/Plática" Our Lady of the
Lake University, April
"Fiestas on the Borderland" Tanner Symposium, Utah State University, April
"Conversations with Folklorists" Tanner Symposium, Utah State University, April
"Reading from Canícula," Tanner Symposium, Utah State University, April
"Vaqueros and Matachines: Exhibiting Identity," NACCS Foco Meeting, McAllen,
TX, March
"Chicano folklore: Studying our Folklore in Toledo Spain", NACCS Ntional
Conference, Austin, TX, March
"Dancing across Borders 3: Traditions and Innovation" Chair, March
"Literatura Chicana: Un Esboso," Universidad de Monterrey, Cátedra Laboris
lectura, March
Panel on Music and Pop Culture, AAWL Conference, Moderador, March
"Performing Hybridity: Fiestas on the Border," Lennox Seminar, Trinity
University, February
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"Writing workshop for Sidewalk Stories" Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI,
February
"Vaqueros, Rancheros and Cowboys," Humanities Lecture, Cowboy Poetry
Gathering, Elko, Nevada, February
"Performing Hybridity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas." In the Series,"Engaging
Documentary: Community Values and Artistic Visions." Duke University, October
18
"Borderless Land," Roundtable Participant, American Studies Association,
Philadelphia, October 12
"Violence in Song Lyrics and Poems of the Border." Moderator and presenter.
Latin American Studies Association. Montréal, Canada, September 6
"Huipiles," National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Jose, CA,
April
"Borderlife and Borderlines" Syracuse University January
Briefing on the work of Humanities Texas at the APAP (Association of
Performance Arts Presenters) special session "Bi-National Meeting of States and
Regions" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, January 19
“La Quinceañera: Transformations of a Coming of Age Ritual’s Cultural Practices
in South Texas,” Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Botkin Lecture,
November 8
“Cabañuelas, chapter 25” Reading at the “Daniel Crowley memorial Storytelling
Concert” American Folklore Society Meeting, Milwaukee October 20
“Putting a Dance Anthology Together” in “Latino/Latin American Dance:
Collaborative Approaches in Festival Production and Publishing” American
Folklore Society Meeting, Milwaukee, October 19
“Una Herida Por Otra” American Studies Association Meeting Oakland, October
13
“La Quinceañera: A Chicana Coming of Age Ritual,” University of Wyoming,
September 21
“Doña Chona y sus Achaques: The Plays of Sylviana Wood” MALCS, UC, Santa
Cruz, August 3-6
“Chicana Poetry” Congreso de literatura chicana, Universidad de Alcalá de
Henares, Spain, May 22-26
“Writing and Living on the Border” University of Texas, El Paso, June 13
“Borderlands Literature and Culture” University of Texas, El Paso, June 7
“Writing on the Border,” Symposium on Border Literatures. University of Texas
at Pan American, April 22
“La Quinceañera: Construction of Gender through Cultural Practices in South
Texas,” Interdisciplinary Symposium Gender and Latina Discourse Vernacular
Rhetorics, Language, and Expressive Culture Texas A&M, April 20.
“Centering the Margins,” Symposium honoring Paul Olson, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, April 8
“Como La Flor: An Analysis of the the Construction of Gender through Traditional
Practices,” LASA, San Juan Puerto Rico, March 15-18
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“Centering the Margins: Status of Scholarship and Teaching at Hispanic Serving
Institutions.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference for Minority
Serving Institutions, Clarke Atlanta University, January 15-16
2005
2004
2003
“Bridal and Baby Showers as Rites of Passage,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambio Social, Berkeley, August
“Balancing: Academic and Creative Writing,” moderator and presenter at Latina
Letters Panel, San Antonio, July
Moderator and Respondent, IUPLR Inaugural Triennial Conference, Siglo XXI:
Latina/o Research into the 21st Century, Austin, January.
“Contemporary Llorona Stories along the U.S. Mexico Border” American Folklore
Society, October
“Border Literature: Writing on the Edge” Invited talk, College of Humanities,
University of Arizona, September
“Gathering Llorona Stories on the Border,” Workshop Mujeres Activas en Letras
y Cambio Social, August
“Trauma and its Aftermaths” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, August
“La Llorona: Reconfigured Legend in Contemporary Latina Texts” Latina Letters,
July
“Teaching Testimonial Literature: Telling To Live,” International Oral History
Association meeting in Rome, Italy, June
“Border Violence and Violence of Borders: Violence and Borders in the Work of
Montserrat Fontes, Chicano/Chicana Literature in Sevilla, Spain, May
“Gathering Stories: Collecting and Preserving” Popular Culture Association, April
“Reconfiguring La Llorona” Multi Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., March.
Reading from Canícula , Tejas Foco of the National Association for Chicano/a
Studies, November
“Dancing with Faith: Two sones from the Matachin tradition” American Folklore
Society, October “A Folklorist in an English Department” Career workshop
sponsored by the Fund for Folk Culture at the American Folklore Society (AFS)
annual meeting, Albuquerque, October
A Book Discussion at the AFS: Chicana Traditions, October
Workshop on Writing for Teens in the Smithsonian Institution’s Rio Bravo/Rio
Grande Exhibit, Washington, DC
“Latina Feminist Testimonios” Latina Letters Conference, July
“Writing the Self” National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, UTSA
“Latina Writing in the New Millennium” 5th Annual Meeting of Borderlands
Writers, Letras en el Borde
“A Writer in the Academy” 1-day workshop at the Universidad de Monterrey
exploring the role of the faculty member who is also a creative writer and
presenting my research on quinceañeras and rituals, April
“Creative Writing for Social Change” Pima County Community College, Tucson,
March
“Latinas and Testimonios” Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, March
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2000
“Canícula: A Borderlands Text,” Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher
Education, Austin, January
“Envisioning a New World: Polycultural, Mestizo and Mestiza, Creole Literatures”
MLA Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. Session convener and moderator. December
“Latina Feminisms and Chicana Writers” Breakfast Talk for the Women’s Caucus
of the American Studies Association Meeting, Houston November
“We Came to Work: Mining and Smelting in Laredo, TX,” Oral History
Association, October
“Telling to Live—Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino,” National Women’s
Studies Association, June
“Autobiography, Memoir, and Testimonios,”Congreso Internacional de Literatura
Chicana. Málaga Spain May
“Coming to Bilingualism: A writer and a reader,” San Antonio Area Bilingual
Education conference May
“Con el corazón y la mente: Chicana Activism and Spirituality,” National
Association of Chicano/a Studies, Chicago, March
“Latina Feminisms: A Trope for the new Millennium,” Latino Studies Journal, UIC,
Chicago, February
“Telling to Live,” Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21 st
Century: Celebrating This Bridge Called My Back, UC Berkeley February.
Modern Languages Association. New Orleans Respondent to panel arranged by
Tey Diana Rebolledo.
Modern Languages Association. New Orleans “Home Made Autobiography: La
Casa de Miel.”
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. Austin “Chicanas in Higher
Education.”
Art Exhibit Opening: Raquel Valle Senties. Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. MX, Border
Artists.
Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, Homegrown
Autobiographies in the Borderlands.
NEH Seminar (UTSA) Folklore in the Classroom.
“The George Washington’s Birthday Celebration,” University of California Santa
Barbara.
“Intersections of Class and Gender,” Working Class Studies conference,
Youngstown, Ohio, May
“Performing Hybridity: George Washington’s Birthday Celebration in Laredo,
Texas” American Folklore Society, Anchorage, AL.
“Autobiography” Western Literature Association. Omaha, NE.
“La Onda Tejana: New Chicana Poets” National Association of Chicano and
Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ.
“Homemade Autobiographies: four Laredo authors.” National Association of
Chicano and Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ.
“Don Pedrito Jaramillo: Folk Healer of Los Olmos,” American Folklore Society,
Columbus, MO.
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1998
1997
1996
“Writing at the Crossroads: Un lenguaje y una realidad fronteriza,” Latin
American Studies conference, Miami, Florida.
“Fronteriza Literature: from Canseco del Valle to Fontes,” Primavera Conference,
Laredo, TX.
Creative Writing and Autobiography: A Workshop for Teachers of Writing,
National Council of Teachers of English, Denver.
“Mandas y Promesas: Los Matachines” American Folklore Society, Memphis,
Teatro y Teatristas: The Role of Chicanas in the Formation of a Dramatic
Traditions,” Hijas del Quinto Sol, San Antonio.
“Teatro and Teatristas: Chicanas in the Development of a Dramatic Tradition,”
NACCS, San Antonio.
“Chicanas and Latinas: A future, a past,” Portland State University.
“Latinas in the Next Millennium: A workshop for Student Leaders,” University of
Texas, Austin.
“Borderlands Culture and Tradition,” Salado Institute for the Humanities/Salado
High School, Salado, TX.
“Chicanas in the New Millennium,” NACCS California Foco, California State
University, Monterey Bay.
“La Quinceañera: A Gendered Racialized Ritual,” and Respondent to the Panel on
Autobiographical Writing, American Folklore Society, Portland, OR.
Al Filo de la Literatura, “La Literatura en las Fronteras,” Bellas Artes, Mexico, D.F.
Panel Presentation on Papelitos Guardados, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio
Social, University of California, Santa Cruz.
“¿Qué Onda? Cultural Exchange on the U.S. Mexico Border,” NACCS, Mexico
City.
“Literature of the Borderlands,” Rio Bravo Association annual conference,
Laredo, TX.
“Latina Research: A Workshop,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference,
Austin
“Navigating Public Discourse: Norma Alarcón’s Third Woman Press and the
Construction of a Chicana Discourse,” American Studies Association Annual
Conference, Washington, D.C.
“La onda fronteriza: Radio on the Border,” Borderlands Landscapes Conference,
TAMIU.
Border Studies Workshop for the Texas Council for the Humanities, TAMIU.
Fife Conference, 2 workshop presentations: La Quinceañera and Los Matachines,
Utah State University.
“Critical Perspectives on U.S. Latina Literature,” Hijas del Quinto Sol Conference,
San Antonio, TX.
“La Quinceañera: Towards an Ethnography of a Life Cycle Ritual.” National
Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies, Sacramento, CA.
“Borderlands Culture and Tradition,” Stanford University.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle and Post-War Borderlands Culture.” Modern
Languages Association, Washington, D.C.
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The Washington Center’s “Women as Leaders: An Academic Seminar,”
Washington, D.C.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle: Autora Fronteriza,” “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic
Literary Heritage,” University of Houston.
Respondent at American Studies Association meeting, Kansas City.
“Borders and Identity: the borderlands workshops,” American Folklore Society
conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Women and Leadership,” National Hispanic Leadership Conference, Phoenix,
AZ.
“A writer who teaches; A teacher who writes--The Writing of Canícula:
Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio
Social, San Diego.
“Language and Politics: The case of a border community,” Teaching Diversity
Teacher Workshops, Howard University, Wash. D.C.
“Folklore in the Classroom: Using literature,” Folklore in the Classroom
Teachers' Workshops, University of Virginia, Northern Virginia campus.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle: Escritora Fronteriza," Encuentro Internacional de
Escritores,” Monterrey, Nuevo León.
“Borderlands Culture and Traditions,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
“The Novelist as Social Critic: Margarita Canseco del Valle and Borderlands
Culture of the Mid-Twentieth Century.” University of New Mexico's Fifth Annual
Conference on IberoAmerican Culture and Society, Albuquerque, N.M.
“Borderlands Culture and Tradition: The literary legacy"--Intercultural Workshop
conducted for the faculty of Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Texas A&M Kingsville
at the TAMU-CC campus.
“La Quinceañera como acto de resistencia cultural,” Encuentro Chicano/Latino,
Universidad Autónoma de México.
“Language as Cultural Resistance,” The Global Education project, Ramapo
College, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
“An Expression of Art--Linking with Latina Writers,” workshop and reading at the
10th Hispanic Women's Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
“Rights of Passage: La Celebración de la Quinceañera como rito de pasaje
comunitario e individual,” Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.
Creative Writing in the Classroom: D.C. Writing Project -- Writing Workshop,
Howard University.
“A Walk on the Wild Side: Chicana Literature Today,” Conference on
Latina Writers at Jersey City State College.
“The Streets of Laredo: Myth and Reality of a Legendary Site,” Presented at the
Conference on Barrios and other ethnic neighborhoods in the U.S., Université
Paris VII, Paris, France.
Workshop Presenter: Smithsonian Institution/Inter-University Program Latino
Qualitative Methods Seminar: Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research and
Museums “Gender and Sexuality in Cultural and Historical Studies.”
American Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Institution. Presenter Northern New
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1990
Mexico/Southern Colorado Hispanic weaving traditions.
American Women Writers of Color: Other Voices: Plenary Session Presenter-"Current Directions in U.S. Latina Literature,” Salisbury State College, MD.
“Chicana Poets: From Declamación to One-Woman Shows,” American Studies
Association Meeting. Boston, MA.
“Desde el otro Lado: Notes on borders and cultures",” presented at the Américo
Paredes Symposium, Austin, TX.
“Breakfast Round Table on Border Literature,” American Literature Association.
San Antonio, TX.
“Growing Up Chicano/a: the work of Sandra Cisneros and Richard Rodriguez,”
Workshop presented for the South Dakota Humanities Council, Mitchell, South
Dakota.
“Border Experience,” three day workshop for the Augsburg College Center for
Global Education students. Laredo, TX.
“Margarita Canseco del Valle and Roberta Fernández: Border Writers Writing
Culture.” Coloquio de escritoras Chicanas, UNAM, Mexico City.
“Festival of American Folklife,” Smithsonian Institution.
“Tafolla's with our very own name: Chicanas Transform Poetry--from
Declamación to One Woman-Shows,” National Association of Chicano Studies,
San Jose, CA.
“Issues of Chicanas in Higher Education,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio
Social. Berkeley.
“Working Class Chicanas as Administrators,” American Association of Higher
Education. Chicago.
“Women on the Edge: Chicanas y Latinas in the Borderlands,” National
Association of Chicano Studies, San Antonio
“La Onda de la Frontera: Las Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo,”
Universidad Valle del Bravo, Semana de la Comunicacion, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.
“Mi Casa es su casa: Moving Toward a Multilingual Texas or Legislation on
Second Language Learning and Culture,” Keynote Address, TexTESOL State
Conference, Austin, Texas.
“Tafolla's with our very own names: Cultural Transformation of a Traditional
Form as Resistance and Affirmation.” South Central Modern Languages
Association, Fort Worth, Texas
“Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de Laredo, Texas: Un acto de Resistencia
Cultural,” Foro de Analysis, Festival de la Raza, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.
“Somos de aqui y de allá: Refugees on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Human
Rights in the Americas Symposium, St. Mary's University School of Law, San
Antonio, Texas.
“Pastoras and Matachines: A Feminist Look at Chicano/a Folk Drama” Modern
Languages Association, Chicago.
“Semiotic Analysis of a Public Religious Performance - Los Matachines de la Sta.
Cruz de la Ladrillera de Laredo, Texas.” Popular Culture Association, San Antonio.
“Women of Color in Academia: Rock the Boat and Learn to Swim,” South Central
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1979
Modern Languages Association, Dallas.
“how i got to be what i never intended to be--AN ADMINISTRATOR,” Texas
Faculty Association, Texas A&I, Kingsville, TX.
“Chicana Literature and the Border,” discussion at the Mujeres Activas en Letras
y Cambio Social Institute, UCLA.
“ESL Techniques for LVA Tutors,” Literacy Volunteers of America-Texas, Salado.
“Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: La Chicana en la historia de la frontera mejicotejana,” Foro de analysis, celebración del 5 de mayo, Colegio de la Frontera
Norte, Nuevo Laredo.
“Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Feminism???Approaches to Chicana
Literature” in the panel “Tradition and Change: Chicana Writers Today” National
Association of Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Las Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo: Apuntes basados en la
aportación de Luciano Duarte y Ramoncita Esparza,” South Central Organization
of Latin American Studies, Monterrey, Nuevo León. (read by Carlos Lozano)
“The Many Loves of Cisneros and Castillo: The Poetry of Sandra Cisneros and
Ana Castillo--Examples of Literary Befriending,” Modern Languages of America,
Washington, D.C., December
“Los anuncios comerciales en Laredo, Texas,” Conference on Spanish in the U.S.,
Tucson Arizona.
“Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera: Notes Toward a Socio-literary
Analysis,” International Conference on Feasts and Celebrations in North
American Ethnic Groups, Institute Charles V, American Studies, Paris. Hispanic
Women's Network of Texas Blue Ribbon Panel on Education, Laredo, Texas,
October, 1989.
“Literacy Tutoring in the High Schools,” Texas Joint Council of Teachers
Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas.
“Guadalupe and Malinche: Roles of Women in Chicano Folk Drama” National
Association of Chicano Studies, Los Angeles.
“Images of Self and Community: Audre Lorde and Cherrie Moraga,” Modern
Languages Association, December.
“The ESL Student and Literacy Programs,” Adult Basic Education Conference,
Dallas, TX.
“La Gila and La Malinche: Notes Towards an Analysis of Female Characters in
Chicano Folk Drama,” XII TENAZ Theater Festival, Santa Barbara, CA.
“Plenary Session: Gender and Equality, Chicanas in Higher Education and
Society,” NACS, Austin, TX.
“Los Matachines in Laredo,” NACS, Ypsilanti, MI.
“'The poet within us bays': Students Write in Their Own Language,” Writing
Across The Curriculum Conference, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas.
“Trenzas and Bright Colors: Race and Class Stereotypes,” National Women's
Studies Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
“My ‘Excuse-me' Tongue,” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Minneapolis.
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“Los Matachines: A Religious Celebration in Laredo, Texas," Kansas Tri-University
Latin American Studies Conference, “Images of God and Man in Latin America,”
Manhattan, Kansas.
Professional Activities—Readings of Creative Work
Since 1975, I have been reading my creative work and conducting workshops in a number of
venues. The following is a selection of such venues to indicate the breadth of presentations:
2013
2012
UMKC Creative Voices, February
Kansas City Public Library, Nuestra Herencia Speaker Series, September
University of Houson-Victoria, November
Miami University, September
University of Miami of Ohio
2011
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, December
Paschalle Elementary School, November
Homenaje a Techitzin,“Ballet Folklórico en Aztlán” San Diego, August
Northwest Vista, Mexican American Studies, April
2010
Numerous venues in the US and in Europe, including:
University of Texas, El Paso, April
Texas A&M University, May
Letras en el Andén, Nuevo Laredo, TAMPS, May
Congreso de literatura Chicana, Leon, Spain, May
Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain, May
Numerous readings at local schools and venues
2009
Texas A&M University, December
Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Plenary: American Women
Writing Now, Philadelphia, October
Universidad de Monterrey, March
Tecnológico de Monterrey, October
Invited to the Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León, event was postponed
Numerous readings at local schools and venues
2008
Various Readings and Talks at universities, community events, and other formal
venues:
Laredo Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Tanner Symposium, Utah State University
Universidad de Monterrey
Our Lady of the Lake University
2007
--Readings at a number of venues including:
Universidad de Monterrey
San Juan Puerto Rico—hosted by University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez
2006
--University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, July 25
--la Tertulia, San Juan Puerto Rico
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2004
2003
2000-02
--University of Texas, El Paso, June 7-8
--University of Houston, June 12-14
--University of Texas at Pan American, April 26-28
--Border Book Festival, Mesilla, New Mexico, April 22-23
--Texas A&M University, College Station, April 21
--Associated Writing Programs, March 12
--Writers against Torture, San Antonio Public Library, February
--Surviving Patriotism, Keynote at the Book Presentation of Una Herida por
otra/One Wound for Another, Whittier College in Whittier, CA, September
--Participant on a panel on Chicana/o literature for the presentation of Punto de
Partida, cosponsored by UNAM and UTSA at UTSA, September
--Students of Color Conference, Yakima Valley, WA
--Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (various venues including Tecnológico de Monterrey
and the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León)
--InterAmerican bookfair, San Antonio
University of Arizona, Tucson
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Universidad Iberoamericana de Torreon, Coah.
Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr College
Swarthmore College
Barnes & Noble, Author of the Month for September, San Antonio, TX
Wordfest, UTSA Poetry Reading
Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX
Pima County Community College, Tucson, AZ
Austin College, Sherman Texas
Worcester State College, Worcester, MA
Latina Letters, San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Inter American Book Fair
Tercer Congreso de Literatura Chicana, Málaga, Spain
Dallas County Community College System: Mountain View and Richardson
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
University of Wisconsin, Marathon County
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Hidalgo County State Historical Museum
Stanford University, Sonoma State University, UC Berkeley
Presentations/Readings/Papers Presented to Student and Community Groups:
2013
Webster University
2009-2011
Northwest Vista Community College, The Second Annual Trinidad Sanchez Jr.
Poetry and Art Festival
Member of the committee organizing Sandra Cisneros’s 25 th anniversary
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Organized UTSA event for the Sandra Cisneros’s 25th anniversary celebration of
Mango Street—Northwest Vista Community College and UTSA students
2001-2008: I am summarizing and citing representative venues: Red Salmon Arts reading at the
Mexican American Culturall Center in Austin, Esepranza Peace and Justice Center, Martinez
Street Women's Clinic, Elementary School in San Antonio, Society for the Advancement of
Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, Denver; Alamo High School, Alamo, Texas,
Hermelinda Ochoa/Tomas Sanchez Elementary School, Laredo, TX, classroom presentation; 16
de Septiembre, UTSA; Valenzuela Latino Bookstore—Dia De los Muertos; Juan Farias Gallery—
Día de los Muertos; Trinity University, Primera Voz—Oak Cliff Ice House, Dallas; Zapata High
School, Zapata, TX; National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies—Chicago’s Mexican
Museum; Richland Community College, Human Pursuits, Westfall Public Library—Humanities
Reading Series: Work, Life and Love series; I continue to participate in ongoing public
humanities programs and to present talks to various classes and community groups.
2000
University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Introduction to Chicana/o Studies, UTSA;
Nashville Tennessee, Southern Literary Festival and a number of local venues in
Laredo, Texas and San Antonio, Texas.
1998-2000
I presented a number of talks to community groups in Santa Barbara, CA and
Laredo, TX such as La Cumbre Middle School and the Contemporary Arts Council.
1997
World Food Day Keynote Speaker, Laredo Food Bank.
Martin High School classes, LUCHA, Texas A&M International University,
Treviño Magnet School, Alexander High School.
1995-96
Numerous presentations to students visiting TAMIU.
1996
United South High School.
Milton Elementary School.
“Borderland Culture and Tradition,” Dr. Alicia Carroll’s class, TAMIU.
George Washington Middle School.
"Writing in the Borderlands," Federal Women's Program, Laredo, TX.
1992
"500 Years: Reflections on the Hispanic Influences on Laredo” IRS Hispanic
Heritage Week Celebration, Laredo, Texas.
1991
"Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities," Laredo Public Library,
Humanities Lecture Series.
1991
"AAUW's Education Equity Initiative: The Local Scene," American Association of
University Women meeting.
"Growing up Chicana on the Border" Laredo Upward Bound.
1990
"Matachines Tradition in Laredo: 1930-1990" Leadership Laredo.
"Language and Gender: PUD" Texas Press Women's Association.
"Effective Outreach to Community" State Agricultural Extension Service Agents
Meeting.
"Healing Through Faith y un poquito mas: Curanderos y Curanderas in the
Hispanic Community" Mercy Regional Medical Center, Laredo, Texas, National
Directors of Education Retreat.
1989
"A Personal History of Laredo...y qué?" Leadership Laredo.
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1978
1977
"Fiestas in Spain," American Association of University Women.
"Holding Up Half the World: The Secretary" Gateway Chapter of National
Secretaries Association.
"Fiestas in Spain" Spanish class, University of Texas, Austin.
"Two Women in Laredo: Sara Estela Ramirez and Jovita Idar," Laredo Business
and Professional Women's Club.
"The Power of Words," Laredo Junior College Upward Bound Program.
"Women Healers in Laredo," Laredo Nursing Association.
"Chicana Feminism: A Personal View," Laredo Philosophical Society.
"La Texana," Texas Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas.
"La Pastorela and Other Folk Celebrations," Spanish Language House, University
of Nebraska—Lincoln.
"Chicana Feminism," seminar chaired at the National Women's Studies
Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
"Feminism: A Personal Perspective," presented at the Women Speak program,
University of Nebraska—Lincoln.
"La Chicana in Nebraska," workshop at the Women's Equality Day Conference,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Other membership and professional activities:
2013
2012
Advisory committee, Diálogo, literary journal of the Latino Studies Center at
DePaul University (ongoing)
Advisory Committee member for the Chicana/Latina Studies Journal (ongoing)
Review panel for National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, Jan 17-20
2011
Advisory Committee member for the Chicana/Latina Studies Journal
Reviewed Manuscripts for Temple University Press, Univeristy of Arizona Press,
and various journals including the Chicana/Latina Studies Journal
2010
Advisory Committee member for the Chicana/Latina Studies Journal
Hosted El Mundo Zurdo 2010: An International Conference on the Life and Work
of Gloria Anzaldúa, November 5-7
Reviewed Manuscripts for Illinois University Press and various journals
2009
Advisory Committee member for the Chicana/Latina Studies Journal
Team Taught workshop for Macondo Writers Workshop, San Antonio, July
Co-founded CantoMundo, an organization for Latina/o Poets
Hosted El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Life and Work of
Gloria Anzaldúa, May 15-17.
2008
Local Arrangements Chair, South Central Modern Languages Association
2006
Review of Manuscripts for Duke University Press, University of Arizona Press,
Illinois University press, and various journals.
Review of Women’s Studies Program, University of Arizona, Chair of the
Committee
2005
Review Panel for NEA, Washington DC, June 8-9
2004
Elected to the Delegate Assembly, MLA
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2003
2003
2003
2002-2005
2002
1993-94
1991-94
1993-95
1986-2003
1994
Chair of the MLA Division, Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. (member 1999-2004)
Chair-Elect, National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies and Chair of the
Program Committee
Site Committee Chair, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
Research Advisory Council, American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Secretary of the MLA Division, Ethnic Literatures of the US
(There is a long list between 1993-2000 including chair and secretary of the
Chicano Literature Discussion Group of the MLA)
Chair of the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) National
Association of Chicana and Latina scholars.
Member of the Modern Languages of America Committee on Languages and
Literatures of America editorial board.
Advisory committee member of the NECA (Network for Educators of Central
America), Washington, D.C.
Literacy Volunteer Board member, ESL tutor, tutor trainer. Developed
workshops and trained tutors and trainers, December 1986--2001. Board
President. Founder, 1986
Advisor for Bread and Roses (New York based) Memorable Latinas Project,
Abriendo Camino: I provided input on women selected, development of
curriculum guide and edited the bilingual materials (1994) for "Women of Hope."
Editor/Consultant/Nominator
2011 Neustadt Literary Prize Juror, University of Oklahoma
2010 Nominated Veronica Castillo, NEA Heritage Award
Nominated Norma Alarcón, NACCSScholar of the Year
2009 Consultant for the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History. Attended
meetings and set up itinerary and hosted two curators for a week in February.
Read various manuscripts for MELUS, University of Arizona Press and University of
Nebraska Press, Texas A&M University Press, Western Folklore, journal
Member of the Editorial Board, Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of the Mujeres
Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
Nominated Enrique Rendon, NEA
Nominated Macondo participants
Nominated Emmy Perez, poet, who received the Cisneros del Moral award
Judge, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies--Tejas Foco Book Award
2003-2008
Member of the Editorial Board, Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of the Mujeres
Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
Reader for a number of presses including: U of Arizona Press, U of Oklahoma Press,
Texas A&M University Press
2004-2005
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One of 7 Senior Editors for the multi-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinos
in the United States (2005)
One of 10 Senior Editors for forthcoming the Women's Folklore and Folklife: An
Encylopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Locke, Liz and Theresa A.
Vaughan, eds. 2006,
Editor, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions Series, Texas A&M
University Press,
Reviewer for a number of refereed journals: Frontiers, Latino Studies, and the Journal of
Chicana/Latina Studies
Reader for a number of university presses including the University of Arizona Press, and
University of Texas Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Duke University Press
Nominated the winning poet for the Cisneros del Moral Award (2004)
2003
University of Arizona Press, University of Illinois Press, Oxford University Press,
University of New Mexico Press; Chicana/Latina Studies Journal; Duke University Press,
Editor, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions Series, Texas A&M
University Press, and reader for a number of journals. Read for NEA, Creative Writing
Fellowships in Prose, August, 1999 and served on a Panel for NEA, June 1999.
Since 1990, I have served as a reviewer for a number of presses. I have also been a judge for
various literary awards including Sandra Cisneros’ Cisneros del Moral Award and the Montana
Arts Council fiction award, and in 2011, The Neustadt International Literary Award.
Appointments/Offices Held:
2011 Advisory Board, Diálogo, Journal for the Center for Latino Studies, DePaul University
2009 Catedra Laboris, UDEM
Gemini Ink Board Member
2008 National Endowment for the Arts, Panel Review Member
Gemini Ink Board, member
2007 National Endowment for the Arts, Panel Review Member
Gemini Ink Board member
2005 National Endowment for the Arts, Panel Review Member
2004-2007
Excelencia in Education, Founding board member
2004-2007
Humanities Texas, board member;
Secretary—2004-2005
2003-2004
Chair Elect, National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies
1996-2002
Board Member, American Folklore Society
1998-2000
Rio Bravo Association, President
1998-2000
MLA Chicano Literature Discussion Group
1997-98
MLA --Chair Chicano Literature Discussion Group
1999-04
MLA--Ethnic Literatures
Secretary, 2003 and Chair 2004
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1998-2002
2000--2003
Board Member of the Federation of State Humanities Councils
Vice Chair
Chair of the 2000 conference committee
1996-2005
Board Member, Mexican American Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX.
1998-2006
Board Member, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center.
1998
Panel Member -- the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C
1998-2000
Member of the Advisory Committee of MALCS
1992-95
Member of the editorial board of MALCS.
1992-94
Editorial Board, Modern Languages Association Commission on the Literatures
and Languages of America.
1990-92
American Association of University Women-local treasurer .
Texas Joint Council of Teachers of English (TCTE)
1983
District I & II Program Chair
1983
General Chair, districts I & II
1988
Program Chair, districts I & II
1989
General Chair, districts I & II
1987-93
Member of Texas Committee for the Humanities.
1987-89
MLA Commission on the Languages and Literatures of America
1988
TCTE Publications Committee
1987
Nominations Committee
1987
Texas Committee on Higher Education, Member of TASP Content Advisory Com
1989
Federation of State Humanities Councils, Conference Planning Committee.
1991
Council for Women in Higher Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board.
1992
Institutional Representative to the Council for Women in Higher Education,
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
1992-93
Faculty Representative on the Formula Funding Committee of the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
1987-88
Faculty Senate, Secretary.
1988
Faculty Senate, President.
Languages:
Spanish: speaking, writing, reading native fluency
Italian and French: reading
Professional Organizations
American Folklore Society
National Women's Studies
Association of Associated Writing Programs
Association
American Studies Association
Modern Languages Association
Latin American Studies Association
Western Literature Association
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
American Association of University
South Central Modern Languages Association
Women
National Association of Chicana/Chicano
Macondo Writers
Workshop,member
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Studies (Regional and National)
Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, Executive Director and founder
CantoMundo: Latin@ Poetry Organization, Coordinating Committee and founder
Community Organizations and Experience
2011
MALCS-San Antonio, Organizer/Program Committee
2010
MALCS-San Antonio, Organizer/Program Committee
2009
Arts Magnet School, talk to two groups of high school students September
MALCS-San Antonio, Program Committee; Presentation on Fiestas de diciembre,
December
Martin High School Awards, Laredo Independent School District, invocation,
November
2008
MALCS-San Antonio, Program Committee; Presentation on language
2007
4 Public School Readings
2004
Deputized Voter Registrar for Bexar County
2004
Trainer for Esperanza Peace and Justice Center/West Side Cultural Survey
2003
Valenzuela Books, readings and Day of the Dead Celebration
2002-2004
Public Library Bilingual Reading Program
2000-present
Literacy Volunteers of America - Laredo, TX, Advisory Committee
1996- present
Mexican American Cultural Center, Board
1990-2000
Friends of the Laredo Public Library.
1994-95
Network of Educators for the Americas(NECA), advisor, writing workshop
leader.
1990-93,1996
Indigenous Women's Network.
1989-93
Sin Fronteras Cultural Arts Group, member.
1986-88
Literacy Volunteers of America - Laredo, Texas, President
1988-2002
Literacy Volunteers of America - Laredo, Texas, Founder, Board Member,
tutor & trainer
1990-91
Laredo Public Library - Board Member
1990-92
Laredo Public Library - Vice President
1983-84
Laredo Philosophical Society, President
Organized lecture series, "La Mujer: Then and Now."
1982-2000
Las Mujeres, charter member, organized Primavera Conferences for
National Women's History Month
1982-2000
Worked on various community events for the WHM and Primavera
activities
1986-88
Laredo Junior College Women's Center, Member Board of Advisors.
1984-88
Amnesty International, co-chair organized local chapter, Co-Chair;
National Task Force, member
1976-78
Producer, moderator--Fiesta Latina, weekly public service radio program
on KRNU
1976-79
Director--Teatro Chicano/a under sponsorship of Mexican American
Student Association, University of Nebraska.
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Translator: Development Center for Hispanic Affairs (El Centro), Lincoln
Legal Services of Southeast Nebraska
Podcasts/UTube/Radio, etc
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html#cantu
http://www.granvia.it/scheda.php?id=26http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DGQks2Uwvc ( UCSC
Guestbook)
2010 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEzAsGsJDQ (Laredo Public Library)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0Li0hLszc (Casa de la Cultura, Monterrey, NL)
2011 -http://www.canaluned.com/index.html#frontaleID=F_RC&sectionID=S_INFCUL&videoID
=6101
References:
María Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara
([email protected]), Vice Chancellor
Diana Rebolledo, University of New Mexico ([email protected]),former Chair Dept. of
Spanish and Portuguese
Amelia Montes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln ([email protected]), Director of
Ethnic Studies
Domino Pérez, University of Texas, Austin ([email protected]) Director, center
for Mexican American Studies
Charles Tatum, University of Arizona, Tucson ([email protected]), former Dean
of Arts & Sciences